Method
Every stage produces evidence.
At the end there isn't only a chosen name. There is the path that led to it, written so that someone else can review it.
The stages
- 01
Role
Criteria, stages and the application form agreed with the employer before anything opens.
A record of what the position demands and how it will be checked.
- 02
Screening
Every application read against the same criteria, with flags raised when something declared doesn't match what the role requires.
Form responses and screening flags.
- 03
Assessment
An instrument applied when the position calls for it: work style, situational judgement, English for work or reasoning.
A result with an interpreted reading, never an isolated score.
- 04
Work Sample
A piece of work close to what the person would actually do in the job.
What the person delivered, assessed against the agreed criteria.
- 05
Interview
A competency guide, run the same way for every candidate on the role.
What was asked, what was answered, and what was demonstrated.
- 06
Shortlist
The finalists brought together, each with their material.
Comparison by criterion and a record of what is still open.
- 07
Decision
The choice belongs to the employer, with the case file in view.
A document that still reads clearly months later.
The limits we hold to
A serious method is defined as much by what it refuses to do as by what it does.
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No overall candidate score
A person does not reduce to a number, and a single number hides exactly what the decision needs: where they are strong and where they are not.
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No automated ranking
Ordering people by calculation hands the decision to a formula nobody audited. Comparison is by criterion, and the choice is human.
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No assessment without a purpose
An instrument only enters when it answers a question the role actually has. Running everything on everyone produces volume, not information.
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No conclusion the evidence won't carry
Where the material isn't enough to claim something, the report says so. A recorded doubt is worth more than an invented certainty.
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The method is the same; what changes is which stages the position justifies.